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Wednesday, 15 February 2017

American light cruiser USS Cleveland (CL55) 1938-1960

Cleveland-class

Fargo-class

Building ordered on 17 May 1938, laid down by New York Shipbuilding Corporation with hull number 423 on 1 July 1940, launched by Mrs. H. Burton on 1 November 1941, commissioned on 15 June 1942, decommissioned on 7 February 1947, stricken on 1 March 1959 and sold to be broken up on 18 February 1960. Call sign NICM.

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My father (Ron) and I (Alexander) are doing research in the topic navies and trading companies in the period 1500-present. My mother Karin helped my father early 1980's with research and nowadays she is almost daily photographing the ships passing on the river Schelde.
My father started his research more as 40 years ago. First he was interested in the Dutch navy and the navies in the Second World War , later in the period 19th century-present and about 20 years he started his research in the topic navies 1500-1860, in fact the era of the sailing warships including the galleys and the trading companies like the Dutch E.I.C. and the W.I.C.
My self, I’m interested in the topic navies 1860-present especially Russian built warships and Dutch warships and further more sailing ships over the whole period.
Together we are busy with photographing, drawing and doing research in archives, literature and on the web trying to collect every kind of information and sharing that with others without commercial thoughts just because we are ship lovers and fond of naval history.